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Was it an apple?!
The description of tree of "the knowledge of good
and evil" leaves no trace to the exact species of the
tree. For many years, this fruit was thought to be an
apple. In the original Hebrew, however, at no point
is mentioned the apple (tapuach, ). The myth of
the apple developed due to a mistake made by St.
Jerome when he created the Latin version of the
Bible, known as Vulgate in the year 382.

The forbidden fruits

So what fruit was it then? Jewish sources offer
several answers: nut, , egoz; citron, etrog, ;
vine, gefen, ;wheat, , chitah; and fig, tenah,
. The two most widespread interpretations are
those of the vine and the fig, prevailing the one of the
fig as it is the first tree that appears in Genesis.
Moreover, the text recounts that when the first couple
realized that they were naked, they sewed a loincloth
using a leaf of the fig tree.

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